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Continually, my goal has been to make sure that we give every opportunity for afghanistan to succeed, while we're still making sure we're meeting our core missions. and as i've continually said, my approach is i need to assess the situation on the ground, figure out what's working, figure out what's not working, make adjustments where necessary. this isn't the first time those adjustments have been made. this probably won't be the last. >> he was aspirational in his peacemaking. it's got to be disappointing, right? >> you can't see it as anything other than disappointing that a third president...

Failure. i think it was -- it's a foreign policy decision that is probably very, very necessary. and in some ways, was almost prepared. because we've heard already that things like that might happen. there's a question of iraq, whether the troops should have been withdrawn when they were withdrawn. so in some ways, it doesn't come as a great surprise. it just comes as a little shift or big shift in foreign policy. the question is, what is the executive exit strategy, do they have one, and whether almost 10,000 troops would be enough to maintain the current status, which is already very, very p...

Realities of our war making. and the fact that there is a blank check for the president to continue these wars, is part of the problem. also on the question of the president's peacemaking legacy, we do also have to remember the iran deal, we have to remember cuba. these are important things that have happened in terms of making -- in terms of coming to peaceful solutions to conflict that involve the united states. i think we need to remember those things. >> when you see the president engaging in that way, when you see him talking about the iranian deal, when you see him talking about opening ...

Since the war began in 2001. this week's announcement represents not only a major shift in u.s. policy in afghanistan, but an even more significant rewriting of president obama's legacy. the president who aspired to be a peacemaker in an age of endless war, is now a president who will follow in the foot steps of his predecessor, in the extent that he is leaving the inheritance of america's longest war in the hands of america's next president. joining me now is matt welch, editor and chief of reason magazine. nina, who is professor of international affairs at the new school. ki write, features ...

Remained of the u.s. military presence in afghanistan. down from more than 100,000 at the peak of u.s. war time involvement back in 2011. then, just a few months later, in december of 2014, the president announced the official end of the u.s. combat mission in afghanistan. the fatz phased drawdown of u.s. troops would continue. and the new mission, the 10,000 american soldiers in the country would shift from active combat to support role to afghan security forces in their fight against the taliban. even as the official u.s. policy in afghanistan signaled the beginning of the end of the war tha...